Addiction Education
This is a person, place, or thing that prompts the urge to use.
What is a trigger/activator?
True or False: Healthy Relationships have NO conflict or disagreements.
False! Conflict and disagreements are normal. The way we handle them makes all the difference!
A powerful desire for something that usually passes.
What is a craving.
After getting sober in 1990 at Atlanta’s Triangle Club, this “I’m Still Standing” singer went on to found a major HIV/AIDS support foundation and even helped secure the club’s property.
Who is Elton John?
Particularly true in early recovery, this emotion, when avoided or left unchecked, can cause intense urges to use.
What is anger.
These are excuses/reasons that our addictive brain gives us to move closer to relapse.
What are relapse justifications?
This style of therapy is based on the idea that how you think determines how you feel and how you behave.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
This is the main neurotransmitter impacted during substance use.
What is dopamine?
After entering recovery at a young age, this former child star turned her life around, finding her happily “ever after” as an actress, producer, and daytime talk-show host.
Who is Drew Barrymore?
These two words, defined as "feeling badf for something you have done" and " feeling bad about who you are", are two of the most significant triggering emotions for people in recovery.
Guilt and Shame
This is a group of cognitive, behavior, and physical symptoms that indicate a person continues using despite significant consequences.
What is substance use disorder?
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
Which part of your brain is responsible for addictive thinking and pleasure-seeking tendencies, the area "where addiction lives"?
What is the Reward System or Amygdala?
SMART Recovery, 12 Step, Harm Reduction, MAT (Medication Assistant Treatment), and Dharma Recovery are all examples of these.
What are the multiple pathways to recovery?
This term describes a feeling people get when the demands of day-to-day life get overwhelming.
This is the most common trigger people experience each day and can be a gateway for other unhelpful behaviors.
Stress
This is the process of changing from a lifestyle of addiction and other self-destructive, dishonest behavior to one of abstinence and healthy, honest behavior.
What is recovery?
A person's most central ideas about themselves, others, and the world. These beliefs act like a lenses through which every situation and life experience is seen. Negative central ideas lead to negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is a core belief?
This brain structure is shaped like an almond.
What is the amygdala?
According to an AA core concept: "___ is the answer to all my problems today"
What is acceptance?
These are all examples of what unhelpful thought pattern described by CBT.
All or Nothing Thinking
Minimizing
Magical Thinking
Cognitive Distortions
This is a group of symptoms that occur after the immediate period of abstinence, including mood swings, sleep disturbance, fatigue, craving, and difficulty concentrating.
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)?
This DBT skill set provides the ability to control which emotions one has, and how the emotion is expressed and experienced.
What is emotional regulation?
In addiction, this are of the brain, responsible for judgment and decision-making weakens, disconnecting from reward/emotion centers and making it hard to stop despite negative consequences.
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
In 2008, with Elton John as his sponsor, this rapper got sober and helped the real him stand up.
Who is Eminem?
2 parts:
Things like court, family, finances and job are examples of this type of motivation.
Things like feeling guilty, depression, wanting a better life for yourself are an example of this type of motivation.
External Motivation / Internal Motivation